New publication: "Vom Politischen zur Kontingenz des Sozialen"

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Bastian Mokosch
Vom Politischen zur Kontingenz des Sozialen – Eine historisierende Kritik des Postmarxismus
publisher: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2025
ISBN 978-3-95832-418-3
472 pages (paperback)
44,90 EUR

Post-Marxist thinking postulates that the social and society are radically contingent and that their interpretation is therefore always political. However, this assumption is itself part of the political tangle: It starts from the premise of the centrality of the political and formulates the thesis of the pure and radical contingency of the social.

Taking into account contemporary procedures in the history of ideas, Bastian Mokosch chronologically traces the theoretical genesis of post-Marxism by Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière and contextualises it historically and politically. Through the historicising classification of post-Marxist theories, the now forgotten political content of post-Marxist concepts is revealed and it is shown that they themselves are ultimately determined by the political – although they imply this of philosophy and science as a whole.

The author
Bastian Mokosch is working on a project to introduce a research information system at the University of Erfurt. He studied political science, education and sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology. He was a member of the "Centre for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO)" junior research group at the University of Erfurt, where he completed his doctorate with this thesis.